House votes to avert government shutdown

House lawmakers on Thursday approved a measure to avert a government shutdown, delaying key deadlines and buying themselves more time to finish a bigger funding agreement. Facing an end-of-the-week deadline, the House of Representatives passed a bill to temporarily fund one set of federal agencies through March 8 and another set through March 22.In the meantime, Congress would aim to pass packages of legislation to fund the government for the remainder of the budget year.The measure go